Resource Center for Laser, Photonics, and Fiber Optics Education, LASER-TEC

激光、光学、光子学和光纤（LOPFO）应用于许多先进技术，包括医疗仪器、光子集成电路、电信、先进制造和生物技术。美国劳工部预计，在2016年至2026年期间，至少需要1700名LOPFO技术人员来填补空缺职位。这些工作的平均年薪超过63,000美元。然而，每年从美国所有院校培养的LOPFO技术人员不足以满足日益增长的需求。这个项目打算维持和扩大努力，以满足合格的后勤部队技术人员在全国的短缺。为此，它将更新、开发和分发LOPFA教育资源给技术学院教员和K-12教师，以及用于培训在职工人的行业。该项目的主要目标是发展LASER-TEC资源中心，该中心将继续支持增加LOPFO技术劳动力的努力。资源中心将更新和维护教育服务和材料，并为中学、大专和工业教育和培训项目提供开放访问这些资源。项目目标包括：1)开发一个全面、高性能、响应迅速的网站，该网站将容纳和分发由美国国家科学基金会和其他美国政府机构资助的所有LOPFO教育产品；2)更新技术内容和高影响力的教学策略，以改进所有课程材料；3)为教师、大学讲师、辅导员、顾问、管理人员、现有行业成员和其他社区创建量身定制的内容并开展专业发展活动，以讨论最佳实践并增加他们的技术知识；4)开展外展活动，告知K-12和大学教育工作者LOPFO资源的可用性；5)支持在需要LOPFO技术人员的行业和提供LOPFO项目的大学之间建立或加强桥梁。所有资源将被结构化、系统化，并在知识共享协议下作为开放教育资源提供。LASER-TEC将与工业界合作，在拉曼光谱、激光雷达、高功率二极管激光器、飞频秒激光器、磁盘激光器和其他LOPFO技术领域开发新的模块。LASER-TEC还将继续努力支持历史上服务不足和代表性不足的群体，以增加这一技术领域的多样性。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Lasers, optics, photonics, and fiber optics (LOPFO) are used in many advanced technologies including medical instrumentation, photonics-integrated circuits, telecommunications, advanced manufacturing, and biotechnology. The US Department of Labor projects that, between 2016 and 2026, at least 1,700 LOPFO technicians will be needed to fill open positions. These jobs have a median annual salary of more than $63,000. However, the annual output of LOPFO technicians from all US colleges is not enough to meet the growing need. This project intends to sustain and expand efforts to meet the national shortage of qualified LOPFO technicians. It will do so by updating, developing, and distributing LOPFA educational resources to technical college instructors and K-12 teachers, as well as to industry for use in training incumbent workers. The major goal of the project is to develop the LASER-TEC Resource Center, which will continue to support efforts to increase the LOPFO technical workforce. The Resource Center will update and maintain educational services and materials and provide open access these resources to secondary, post-secondary, and industry educational and training programs. Project aims include: 1) developing a comprehensive, high-performing, and responsive website that will house and distribute all LOPFO educational products funded by the National Science Foundation and other US government agencies; 2) updating technical content and high-impact pedagogical strategies to improve all curricular materials; 3) creating tailored content and conducting professional development events for teachers, college instructors, counselors, advisors, administrators, incumbent industry members, and other communities to discuss best practices and increase their technical knowledge; 4) conducting outreach to inform K-12 and college educators about the availability of LOPFO resources; and 5) supporting efforts to build or enhance bridges between industries that need LOPFO technicians and colleges that offer LOPFO programs. All resources will be structured, systemized, and available as Open Education Resources under the Creative Commons ShareAlike license. In collaboration with industry, LASER-TEC will develop new modules in the areas of Raman Spectroscopy, LiDAR, High Power Diode Lasers, Femto Second Lasers, Disk Lasers, and other LOPFO technologies. LASER-TEC will also continue its efforts in supporting historically underserved and underrepresented groups to increase diversity in this technological field. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.